Second, even after such an adjustment, the EU fiscal rules may be detrimental for growth in the accession countries owing to the fact that their economies are still generally immature: compared with mature market economies, the Eastern European countries are more susceptible to external disturbances and hence to higher volatility of aggregate output.
Fuente: Eurostat; cuentas nacionales de la OCDE, estadísticas nacionales; Comisión Europea; European Economy, No. 5 (Bruselas), 2002; OCDE, Economic Outlook, No. 72 (París), diciembre de 2002; Consensus Economics, Consensus Forecasts, enero de 2003, The Economist, 25 de enero de 2003.